Research Skills for Social Sciences & Sciences: Overview

Tips for finding articles in Library Search, disciplinary databases, and online.

Learn techniques and strategies for searching the internet and library databases.

Learn effective ways of taking notes

This workshop recording introduces strategies for skimming and deep-reading scholarly articles.

PowerPoint slides from the workshop.

Workshop recording. Learn about the four types of typical scholarly articles and strategies for reading and evaluating an empirical study.

Learn about types of scholarly articles, practice strategies for reading and evaluating them, and identify parts of an empirical study.

Research Guide shows how to plan and search and organize and cite sources for a lit review.

Learn the types and purposes of literature reviews, steps for planning, and strategies for finding and evaluating sources.

Workshop recording

Learn to define data and the data lifecycle and identify developments and issues in how data is used in research.

Learn to define data and the data lifecycle, discuss big data, biases, and ethics, explore data resources, and consider strategies for searching and accessing data in this workshop recording.

Presenters discuss business, social sciences and humanities databases, along with text mining and copyright considerations in this workshop recording.

Additional content for How to Think About Data.

Get help using APA, MLA, IEEE, and Chicago styles, and citing data.

Recording of our APA citations workshop.

Interactive APA tutorial.

Learn the basics of ASA citation style in this interactive tutorial.